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evebybodt BOOST LOU19BUBG The Franklin Times AS 4DVLB1ISISG 31 LI) I I'M THAT BBISGS RESULTS A. F. JOHNSON, Editor and Manager 4 * THE COUNTY, THE STATE, THE UNION SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 Per Year VOLUMN LIX. , . < LOUISBURQ, N. P., FRIDAY, SEPT. 7th, 1928 jfoages) NUMBER 29 FARMERS DISAPPOINTED AT OPENING PRICES Kalelgh, Sept. 5.?Six million pounds of bright tobacco brought thrfcigh a deluge of rain to the opening of j the eastern markets yesterday 3old for an average of 12 cents, according to unofficial estimates of warehouse. ] men iast night. Lnst year the open, ing day's salefc passed ten million pcuims, with an average of 30 ter cent higher In price. The opening day's a a' - were grievously disap pointing xe to warehousemen and' farmers. There was no profit In them tor any body, except perhaps the pur.' chaser. ? I Tuesday was a fearful day In which to launch a tobacco seasqlh. Worse' weather could not have been conjured' up by anybod Tobacco Is not a cctoimodtty tha>. .an be hauled about | in the rain, and the planters left It at home. It was not a day In which ^buyers wanted to take any long| chances on having tobacco rot on their hands before It could be carted off to safety of the . redrylng plants. The buyers were not overly anxious to buy. . Lean Season Looms But even " so there is little In the present situation to stage a celebra tion aboLt. Unless something hap. pens the belt is In for a lean sea son. An average of 14 cents a pound provides nothing In the way of profit for the man who grew the tobacco, particularly In a season in which -*uly suns and August rains have cook < !? and washed all the quality out of ?> tobacco. Experienced warehouse buyers and farmers in Wilson, r.. Mount, Farmvllle, Klnston and tr. ? lie, the big five markets, de. 11;:: hey had never seen shabbier tobaci v Not i-- the hlstoyy of this bright belt has there been a bulkier crop raised. The trouble with it Is, It does net weigh much. The leaf Is dry. I: has ro juice in it. Juice Is what gives the leaf body and value. That is the reason the big buying com panies give for showing so little dis. position to pay money for this crop of tobacca They say It Isn't worth n s Xnch Leaf Stored Then, according to the tobacco statisticians, there Is stored In the warehouse of the world, a billion ana six hundred mllllqn pounds of tobac co, which Is enough to keep the world In cigars, cigarettes, chewing tobacco and snuff for two or three years. The bulk of It Is declared to be a better grade of tobacco, on the average, than the specimens offered or the warehouse floors of Eastern North Carolina Tuesday. One veteran tobacco man survey, ing the scene in Rocky Mount at the opening sale, declared that he could buy seasoned tobacco out of storage for less money' than was being paid for it on the floor before him, con sidering the quality of last year's crop and this year's crop. The buy. era were bidding steadily and tak ing their share of the tobacco on the floor. He was buying for export to China. He declared that this year's crop was bigger than the tobacco buying world had any use for, the crop led ^lth Its low quality, was as uninteresting a prospect as he had ever seen. That Is the buyer's side ot the situ, ation. The farmer, as usual, Is be wildered by disaster. He doesn't know what to make of it. Something Wrong The majority of them are thorough, ly dissatisfied and depressed. Prices today are said by many of them to be lower than they have been since 1915 when the tobacco market* struck bottom. So experienced a man as John W. Holmes, of Farmvllle, who has an interest In a lot of sales houses, and a lot of tobacco planted on his plantations, though recognis ing the poor quality of the crop, thinks there Is something wrong. This recent reduction of the price of cigarettes by all the great manu. facturlng companies looks suspicious. Little'enough was paid for last year's crop. The reduction in the price ol cigarettes has meant nothing to the consumer of them. Dotens of farmers seen in the warehouses yesterday, were of the opinion that K Is just a screen behind which the manufac turers can excuse themselves for pay lug nothing fob this year's tobacco. Still, the average farmer will ad. mlt that his tobacco Is pretty poor In quality, and that he has raised more of It this year than he can re member having raised before. He cites the exceedingly dry and arid month of July and the Just as wet August. The hot drought stunted his tobacco and then the rains came and washed the oil out of It Altogether it has been about as unfavorable a year as anybody can remember. It started dally with a cold spring, and ' continued with extreme heat and then | extreme wetness. Remedy Offered The thing needs a remedy, and though It may not bring salvation a plan launched In Klnstdn Tuesday has gained rapid headvfay bmong the farmers of the belt The plan Is to haul about 40 million pounds of the shabbiest tobacco In their pack houses out Intt> the barnyard and leave it there. In every warehouse Ir the East scores and scor.es of piles ol tobacco sold for one or two' cents a pound. Last year It brought flvel cents, and in 1919 it brought five1 GETTING READY FOR THE 14TH The several committees In charge of putting over Loulsburg'a biggest day. Farmers Day, September 14th,, next Friday, are leaving no stones un.' turned to make all provisions for the greatest entertainment of Its guests. Fully ten thousand people are ex pected to visit Loulsburg on that day and arrangements are being made on that basis. Splendid lo- al and foreign speakers are befog "groomed for the occasion, A big brass band is being arranged for, much interest is being taken in the pqrade which gives promise of being the biggest and prettiest we have ever had, and barbecue, why so much has been said about the quantity of meat it will take that you can almost smell it cooking. There will be plenty and it is hoped you will enjoy It. Don't forget to | come early and stay all dav. Now a word to the town people, i When you come down street that day I leave your automobile or truck at home In your garage or yard and lets give the visitors more room to 'park. Also when eleven o'clock comes shut up your place of business and get out and help to extend the glad hand to all that are here. Put on your good feelings and broad smiles and help to spread good cheer throughout the day. Lets make our visitors feel for once~at least, that we are really sin. cere in our welcome to them. The several committees are as fol lows: Publicity?F. J. Beasley, chairman; M. S. Clifton, P. 8. Allen, A. F. John son. i Entertainment? Ben Tl^ Holden, chairman, all business men in Louis, burg. Parade?G. M. Beam, chairman; others to be named hy the chairman. Barbecue?D. F. McKinne, chair. ] man; others to be named by the chair man. Information?8. P. Boddie, chair, man; 8. C. Holden, David Harris, F. A. Roth. Don't forget the date, Friday, Sep tomber 14th. Mark your calendar and cothe. LOUISBURG COLLEGE FORMALLY OPENS The formal opening of Louisburg j College fer the fall term 1928 was I celebrated yesterday when at noon the ' Dr. T. M. Grant, pastor of the Firs! Methodist church, of Wilson delivered ! the opening sermon at the College | chapel. Quite a large crowd was pre. ' sent and enjoyed his able dlscouree. | More than three hundred young la. ' dies have been registered at this well | Known Institution and President Mohn Is delighted with the prospects for the coming session. A full ocrpg of experienced and ca pable teachers are Included in the fa. culty and a most beneficial school year is in evidence. JrDGE HARRIS SPEAKS TO <" KIWAXI8 #4 Quite a number of Kiwanlans en. jwed a most able and Interesting ad. dress delivered by Hon. W. C.?HajrrIs, Judge of the Seventh Judicial District, at the fifeual Friday evening luncheon of the Louisburg Club at Hodges Cafe. The program was well arranged and much enjoyed by the many members present. times that much. The scheme^ is to 'throw it away. It is not worth haul iug to market and once there it serves only to depress the price ot better tobacco* Buyers who have heard of the scheme arp opposed to It and have made no secret of their opposition. They, want the totecco. The Chinese cigarette smoker likes it. This op position on the part of the buyer Is likely to advance! the scheme ma. terially. The grower will, in his natural state of mind, do anything that he thinks the buyer will not approve of Newell C. Bartleet was circulating among the markets as an apostle of the plan. It is likely to be consummated, and at least Is per cent of the crop dumped into stables. Growers Suspicions ?>ne other1 thing that makes the grower suspicious is the uniformity of th4 prices among the markets. Sales tags on piles of tobacco in the big Ave towns Tuesday were exactly alike, declared experienced tobacco men. It is bringing the same price everywhere, and all the comfort there is in it for the farmer is the real, lration that n<*body is faring any better than he Is. But it looks to the average farmer like there might be a combination of some sort. At any rate It has been a bloomy opening for the East. There Is little comfort to be had In the usual as sumption that the opening day's of. ferlng of tobacco was of low grade. Much of it was ot low grade, but the prlpes paid for thousands of piles of the best that has been grown In the East this year were correspond, lngly low. Of cdurse, there is the weather, and if it ever clears up the tobacco may look better to the buy ers. But last night It was a pretty desolating situation that confronts the East. There is not .enough In the tobacco to pay for the fertiliser that was washed" out of It and from under It?News and Observer. TWO FLIERS SAFE AFTER LONG TREK OVER ICY WATERS Julianehaab, Greenland, Sept. 3.? ; (Via Radio)?Rescued after two i weeks" of difficult travel over the Ice,' Bert Hassell and Parker Cramer, who I were forced down on the Sukkertop.! pen ice arm while attempting a three stop flight from Rockford, 111., to Stockholm, were ready tonight to i start for Holstenborg. ? I The fliers stood the hardships of' | their trek over the Ice in wonderful : fashion and are In excellent physical condition. < Ha sell and Cramer reached Mount Evans at mldnlghj^. Sunday. They were hungry, but otherwise In good 3lrlts. After resting today, they were ready 1 for the trip to Holstenborg, which 'will be made by motorboat, although the time for their departure has not been set. Plane Not Damaged ; Their airplane1;-the Greater Rock. ' ford. In which <hey set out from | Rockford, August 16, was not dam aged when they made their forced I landing on the Ice after flying far 'off their route to Mount Evans. I The landing was made August 19 I end since that date the two fliers had been attempting to reach safety before their foqd supply was ex, hausted. Their smoke signals were seen Sunday and their rescue was j effected bv members of the lfnlver.| sity of Michigan Greenland Expedi-; tion at Camp Lloyd, south of Mount Evans. ? i 1 Hasst-n and Cramer were forced down while on the secotad lap of their flight. The first flight, from ] Kockford to Cochrane, Ont., had been completed without accident. After a! delay of 24 hours ~t Cochrane, due to! unfavorable weather, they took off at noon, August 18. for Mount Evans, j their second stop. Apparently, everything went well with the plane until they reached the Labrador coast, ready to start the water lump to the coast of Greefi.l land. The radio signals which Cra mer were sending dut were received satisfactorily by operators in the , I'nlted States up to that point. Then i silence covered the flight. The plane shot out over northern waters, however, and Anally, after j striking bad weather, reached the coast of Greenland, nearing the end of the 1,600 mile flight. The big craft was sighted on August 19 by natives at Flskeruaes, a remote village on the coast of Greenland- At that time the fliers were far off their course, but after circling the village^, they headed north toward their original destination, Mount Evans. They landed the same day on the ice of Sukkertoppen. Fuel Exhausted Their fuel was exhaused, but the landing on the ice arm was made safely and the plane was not dam* aged. Sukkertoppen ice arm is south of Mount Evans, and the fliers were forced down when hardly an hour's flight from their destination. ! In the next two weeks, with their fodd supply steadily vanishing, the I two men worked their way across the Ice to a position not far from Camp Lloyd, where the Michigan expedition was stationed. For two days they sent up smdke signals and at ,last at. jtracted the attention of the rescuers ' When they Anally were taken to K'ount Evans, Hassel and Cramjjr ate (heartily and. with a little sleep, had recovered from their trying Journey. FRANKLIN COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MEET Only a Small Number of Matters Be. fore the Boarc; Several Reports ! Received | The Board of Ccauntjr Commission ers met In regular session on Monday with all present. After reading and approving minutes of the previous ; meetings business was transacted as l follows: f Miss Daisy Caldwell, Home Ageut, made her report which was accepted, j She asked for eight months leave of absence to take a post graduate course in her work, the-State Department to send a worker here to take her place i while the was-away. Tho matter was .inferred to Commissioner Sturdlvant. I Report of E. C. Perry, Superinten dent df Public Welfare, was received' and Bled. Report of Dr. R. F. Yarborough, Health Officer, was made by Dr. 8. P. Burt, and was received and Bled. A formal resolution was passed to borrow $75,000 with which to meet expenses of the county until taxes sut 1 flrlent had been collected was pass.. :ed. ! John Hedgepeth, Superintendent of ;the county home was received and j Bled. He reports 9 white and 10 I colored Inmates. Ance Holden was placed on outside ! pauper list at $3.00 per monts. After allowing a number of ac counts the Board adjourned to meet again on Monday, September 17th. MILLS HIGH SCHOOL OPENS The opening enrollment at Mills High School on Monday was better than was gAliciaated considering the weather. One hundred and twenty registered In the high school depart meat, while two hundred and seventy, four registered In the elementary grades. On Wednesday evening there 1 were more than four hundred and | fifty In attendance. Supt. Mills Is very anxious that all the children In ithe district be entered at once and be allowed to continue throughout the term. He Is very desirous of the school doing Its full duty to the child ren and Is asking the parents to co operate with htm to that end. Revival At Cedar Rock A revival meeting will begin at Ce. dar Rock Baptist church Sunday, Sep tember 9th and will continue through the week. The- pastor. Rev. H. P. Hopkins, will have as his helper, Rev. ?. ?. Coley from Rocky Mount. All are Invited tp come. Twenty-two farmers fnfcn Jackaorf county and 18 from Swain recently] made a week's trip through Virginia! to Washington and return. ? H Robert Perry, Jr., Bound Over Under Peeping Charge j Robert Perry, Jr., colored, was bound over to Recorders Court Mon day afternoon by Squire A. W. Al.' ston under a $500 justified bond to urswer to a charge of peeping into' r room Occupied by a woman in a secret manner. Perry denied the charge when ask. ed tor his plea by the Magistrate, and the State tailed to Identify the prison er. However the evidence of' the blood hounds and Constable Wiggs who traced the culprit from the home of Mr. R. C. Wooldridge, where he was peeping Into the room of Mr. Wooldrldge's daughter around town to a location in front ot Mrs. A. M. j Halls where the dogs treed their man 'and Perry was arrested was very strong. In addition Policeman Pace and Mr. Wiggs took a shoe from Perry and fitted It into tracks along the trail which was convincing that he was the one. The evidence f of Miss Wooldridge showed that some one went up on the front porch of their home on Satur. day night after 10 o'clock and peep, ed into her windejw. She called her fattier who called the offiers that in 'siitutcd the search that resulted in Perry's arrest. On the same night a person was seen peeping Into the window 4SC the heme of Mr. F. H. Aliens and although a search brought out a chase with a failure to identify the party, related bj Maj. S. P. Boddle, one of the party chasing this culprit, and a witness at this trial. The trail of the dogs however led In that direction and in several places nearby. The case will come up for hearing before Recorder Hugh Perry Monday. TO BEGIN ON COLLEGE .. CAMPAIGN SEPT. 20TH ^ Mr. A. C. Marts, of New York, who so successfully conducted the Frank lin County Campaign for Louisburg j College, arrived in Louisburg Tues day to take charge of the million dol. . lar campaign for the college, that will , be opened on Thursday, September JOth. This campaign will be oonducted-. throughout the State. - He was accompanied by Mr. ?. ?. t MlllerLjot Plalnfield. N. J., who will < assist him tn this campaign. Mr. 1 Miller will have charge ot the lower ( office, established Wednesday, and I through it have charge ot the South ern part of the State, Ic Great and enthsiasttc. success is t evidenced in the opening prellminar. les of this campaign to increase the t 'aclllties of Louisburg College and :he opportunities for our girls. Of all the stars in the sky. not more han 6,000 or $,000 can be seen with li he naked eye.' -* ?? b t A Chinese typewriter requites about ,000 characters. - ? "' ( BOARD OF EDUCATION HOLDS MEETING The Board of Education met in re. sular session on Monday with A. F. Johnson, Mrs. T. H. Dickens, J. H. Joy ner. W. A. Mullen and E. L. Green present. The minutes df. the meet ing of August 6th and August 22 were read and approved. The letting at arm the contracts for Youngsville Rocky Ford school houses were ap. ptoved. The selling of the old Cedar Rock school building was left with'the sec retary. Upon recommendation of W. it Mullen, B. B. Brantley was appointed a member of the Bunn School Board representing Pilot tci take the place of J. B. Alford who had resigned. The secretary was instructed to sell the Social Plains school building for $25. J. H. Joyner and the secretary were asked to go before the Loulsburg Township Road Trustees and request that the road from Moulton to the highway be placed in condition that would be passable by the school truck. Today, the 3rd of September, be. ing the date for the opening of The schools and the [three building at Wood, Harris and White Level-Hick ory Rock that shodd have been com. pleted according to contract by Au gust 15th, being now far from com pletion, the Board instructed its ar chitect and supervisor, M. S. Davis, to notify the contractor, W. H. Allen, that the Board was asking and ex pecting him to increase the working force on these buildings so that they might be completed and the schools might begin. The secretary and W. A. Mullen were instructed to purchase the neces sary machinery and wiring for con necting the Bunn school Iwlth the Carolina Power and Light Company. The Board unanimously endorsed and recommended the establishing of ?. negro training course in the new school that is being built In Louis, aurg. There being no fuirther business :he Board adjdlurned. Open Gate The rbove will be the subject of, he meaning sermon at, the Methodist :hurch next Sunday, and an "Open1 Hind" will be the subject for the ivening sermon. Rev. Daniel Lane,' >astor, will preach. , A cordial invitation Is extended the 'ollege girls whom all Loulsburg Is lad to welcome to our town. All are cordially invited to attend hese services.* Birth Announcement Mr. and Mrs. P. Dfc Wester, of Lou. ' ibnrg Route 3, wish to announce the lrth of a daughter on Monday, An. nst 27th. Subserve to The Franklin Tlmee AMONG THE VISITORS StiXE YOU KNOW AND SOME IOD DO NOT KNOW. Personal Items About Folks AbA Their Friends Who Travel And There. Constable A. S. Wiggs visited Ral eigh Tuesday. ? ? ? Hon. W. M. Person was a visitor to Louisburg Monday. Mr. and Mrs. James Dick, of Qbar. lotte, are visiting Mrs. John O Wil son. ? ? ? Mrs. Florence E. Underbill, of An derson, S. C., is visiting her people here. ? ? ? Dr. A. H Fleming and family re turned the past week from a trip to Newton. Mr. J. Dorsey Nelms returned this week from, the' South Carolina to bacco markets. Mr. S. T. Wilder returned this week from the South Carolina and Georgia tobacco markets. ? ? ? Messrs. E. F. Thomas and W. R. \oung returned Monday from a trip to Washington VI-. I Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Person and j children returned Saturday from a trip to Missouri and Louisiana. Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Davis and child. |rcn. of Washington City, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Schoonover. r Messrs. S. M. Washington and T. K. Stockard returned this week from the South Carolina tobacco market. I Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Timberlake and little daughter, Christine, and Miss Sarah Rimer, visited Raleigh yester day. Miss Lucy Perry Burt left Friday for Littleton where she has accept 1 ed a position to teach English at the .high school. ... _ ? ? ? ?Messrs. F. J. Beasiey. L. Lr'Joyner, J E Thomas. David Harris and James King returned Monday from a trip to Washington City. Messrs. E. H. McFarland, Dutch Moseley, L. O. Tharrington and Mark Hayes returned Monday from a trip to Washington City. j Mr. W. P. Jordan, a member of the i firm of Moore and Jordan, who will , operate" Louisburg's new tobacco , warehouse, The Southside, arrived in town from the southern markets the T past week. Special Services To Be At Baptist Church Sunday Rev. John Archie Mclver, pastor ot the Baptist church makes the follow ing announcement: "We want to extern? the heartiest j. ? i .re possible to the college girls [ who wish to attencTour church while ii* school here. "There will be special organ and ! violin music by Bill Morris and James Wheless at the morning service. A.I so a male quartet selection. At the evening service the pastor is to bap tize those who were received into the Mt. Ziion church during the revival services this summer. AH interested j are cordially invited to worship with us." ?> _ The Bunn Revival I Revival services will begin at the Bunn Methodist church Sunday, Sep tember 9th at 8 p. m. Services every | evening through the week at 8 o\ clock. Rev. P. H. Fields, of the Jen | kins Memorial Church in Raleigh, .will do the preaching. I Preaching also at Shiloh and Piney' . Grove Sunday by the pastor. | Shiloh, "When Feet Talk," 11 a. m. , Plney Grove, "Life's Bitterness and . How to Meet It.' 3 p. m. SPRING HOPE YOUTH PASSES SUDDENLY Rufus Wood, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Wood, of near Sprlngl Hope, died suddenly of heart attack while in swimming at Parrlsh's pond near Red Bud. The funeral was conducted from his home by his pastor ot Peach Tree church, which he was a faith ful member. The remains were laid tc rest in Spring Hope cemetery. The pall bearers were his young friends and were as follows: Wynd er Prtvett, Leon Joyner, Avjjry Stall, lngs. Jack Savage, Jack Jeffreys and Cleveland Stallings. The floral tribute was especially pretty and spoke * word of love and sympathy. He leaves to mourn their lass be sides his mother and father, two sis ters and six brothers. He was a young man of flne per ind splendid qualities. W* sonaltty and cant understand why God should take a life no young and promising, but we feel satisfied that he has gone to the land of rest. roR nRtfr cnuw job printing PHONBMW - L
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